Franz Rehwald

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Franz Rehwald (born August 16, 1903 in Haan near Teplitz ; † 1981) was a Sudeten German party functionary (DSAP) and journalist.

Life

Rehwald was trained at the commercial academy in Aussig and at the Vienna University for World Trade . During his training he became a member of the Austrian Social Democratic Association of Academics.

From 1925 Rehwald was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Czechoslovakia (DSAP). From 1925 to 1927 Rehwald was the librarian of the German Federation of Trade Unions in Czechoslovakia.

From 1927 to 1933 Rehwald was editor of the newspaper Freiheit in Teplitz-Schönau . He then switched to the magazine Der Textilarbeiter , the organ of the Union of Textile Workers , for which he worked from 1933 to 1938.

In the 1930s Rehwald was considered an economic expert at DSAP. In 1935 he published a study on economic development plans in the Sudeten area .

In 1938 Rehwald was accepted into the party executive committee of the DSAP after he had previously been district chairman of the party in Reichenberg . In the same year Rehwald co-authored a DSAP memorandum on the situation in the Sudeten area for the British Runciman delegation.

After the annexation of the Sudeten areas by the German Reich in autumn 1938, Rehwald fled to Brno .

In the late autumn of 1938, the DSAP sent Rehwald with a small delegation to Ottawa , Canada , to negotiate for the party about the admission of a large number of Sudeten German Social Democrats by the Canadian state - which had indicated its willingness to do so. Its main task was to provide the Canadian authorities with reliable information about the refugees. In 1939, Rehwald himself and Emmanuel Reichenberger moved to Canada via Great Britain. During his stay in the North American state, which was initially regarded as an exile, he was active as a journalist, but then decided to stay in Canada permanently. After living in the Sudeten German exile community in Saskatchewan until 1941 , he went his own way.

After his emigration, Rehwald was classified by the National Socialist police as an enemy of the state: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people who would be succeeded by the occupying forces in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Special SS commandos were to be identified and arrested with special priority.

Rehwald was a member of the New Democratic Party since 1969 . He was a member of the Manitoba Provincial Human Rights Commission . In the last years of his life, Rehwald lived in Winnipeg .

Fonts

  • Capitalist Mad Economy: History and Nature of the Economic Crisis , 1932.
  • Decay or Construction? History and nature of the economic crisis , 1935.

literature

  • Leopold Grünwald: In a foreign country for home: Sudeten German exile in East and West , 1982, p. 163.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Rehwald on the special wanted list GB (reproduction on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London)
personal data
SURNAME Rehwald, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudeten German party functionary (DSAP) and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Haan near Teplitz
DATE OF DEATH 1981